Saturday, May 6, 2017

Watercolor Wash Background

Another Make It Monday for me, since I was so lucky last week ;)! Plus I couldn't pass up a chance to play along with Laurie Schmidlin's first MIM tutorial! She showed us how to make two kinds of watercolor wash backgrounds, one with emboss resist and one without.

I chose to make a resist background with shades of aqua that I added some yellow to along the bottom and a classic favorite of mine, Background Basics: Tin Types.

Stamped some more Bitty Bouquets since I had used them earlier, but this time I inked them with Tim Holtz Distress Ink markers to get a softer sketchy colored look to match the background. So much fun!

8 comments:

Kelly, pretty emboss resist watercolor background - love all the splotches and splatters. Nice selection of colors for your bitty bouquets and lovely design. Thanks for your tip re watercolor paints - I'm still deciding what to do and will probably continue using the cheap set for a while. I'd love to get really good at watercoloring some day!

Hi Kelly, I remember seeing you around at SCS, way back when! SO good to visit your blog. I love the way you continued the sketchy style of the background by using Distress Inks to stamp the flowers. Your card is beautiful in every way!